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CLAUDE.md for Flutter/Dart: 12 Rules That Stop AI From Writing Fragile Mobile Code

DEV Community·Olivia Craft·6 months ago
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You ask Claude to "add a profile screen that loads the user from the API" inside your Flutter codebase, and you get back something that builds on the simulator and is still wrong:

A widget that calls user!.name because the model doesn't want to fight the analyzer.

A 400-line _HomePageState with three nested FutureBuilder s and a setState after every await .

An await api.save(); Navigator.pop(context); with no mounted check — throws This widget has been unmounted in production whenever a user navigates away mid-call.

A class FancyButton extends ElevatedButton that breaks the moment Material updates.

A TextEditingController field with no dispose() .

A raw MethodChannel('com.app/foo').invokeMethod('doX', {'k': v}) that returns dynamic and silently breaks when iOS renames a key.

The model isn't lazy. It's been trained on a decade of Flutter examples, half from before sound null safety, half from "Hello World" tutorials that don't show error handling, dispose, or tests.…

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